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humbuggery

出典:『Wiktionary』 (2016/09/02 17:57 UTC 版)

名詞

humbuggery ‎(countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 humbuggeries)

1. trickery; deception
   • 1996, Charles Arthur Willard, Liberalism and the Problem of Knowledge: A New Rhetoric for Modern Democracy
     Both see Leviathan more as a photograph than a metaphor — a reality veiled by rhetoric — and thereby claim a position of epistemic privilege, a Realpolitik, a discourse shorn of humbuggery and pretense.
   • 2001, James W. Cook, The Arts of Deception: Playing with Fraud in the Age of Barnum
     Peale, however, was never accused of humbuggery — not in his entertainments, not in his marketing strategies, and above all not in his public persona.

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